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Even life expectancy at age 25 is mostly meaningless, actually. Women mortality (due to childbirth) took a significant toll on the average life expectancy as we
by ddebernardy 8y ago
Even life expectancy at age 25 is mostly meaningless, actually. Women mortality (due to childbirth) took a significant toll on the average life expectancy as well. And another two significant scourges were famines and epidemics.
- vasco 8y agoWell, if you take away all the mortality causes of the time you'll end up thinking things were pretty good back then, since people weren't dying in car crashes.
- sacado2 8y agoYep, but life expectancy is not a very intuitive concept. When they read "life expectancy was 25 years", many people tend to think a 30 year old was some kind of lucky but senile guy back then. Dying of old age was just not the norm.
- Brockenstein 8y agoDying of old age was a norm. There were plenty of old people way back when. It's just that lots of people dying young (well across all age groups) was the norm too.
- juskrey 8y agoActually women delivery mortality became horribly bad with the invention of maternity hospitals and before the invention of sanitation.